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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 08:15 PM Oct 2012

Abortion rates plummet with free birth control

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/10/04/abortion.rates.plummet.with.free.birth.control

Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62 percent to 78 percent over the national rate, a new study shows. The research, by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, appears online Oct. 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

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Abortion rates plummet with free birth control (Original Post) TalkingDog Oct 2012 OP
What a startling revelation! Arkansas Granny Oct 2012 #1
Which only proves that everyone must stop having sex! undeterred Oct 2012 #2
Well duh Doctor_J Oct 2012 #3
Birth control fails HockeyMom Oct 2012 #4
It's a "no duh!' - BUT MH1 Oct 2012 #5
Yeah, but then people will just go have SEX WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES! Brickbat Oct 2012 #6
Ya, I'll add a "dur!" to that too Hydra Oct 2012 #7
Who'd a thunk? lunatica Oct 2012 #8
 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
4. Birth control fails
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 08:50 PM
Oct 2012

and then women have abortions. Told this by a Fundie. When I told him I used BD, had "only" 2 kids, and never had abortion, he said I was "rare" and very, very lucky. I told him it must run the in the family because my Mom only had me and no abortions either.

He never anwered me after that.

MH1

(17,600 posts)
5. It's a "no duh!' - BUT
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:46 PM
Oct 2012

the study shows that abortion is reduced MUCH MORE than the researchers expected.

Now most of us would say, hell if it lowers it at all it's a good thing, so what's the discussion about? But accountants and policy wonks like actual numbers. And the news in this report is that the numbers are much more striking than expected.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
7. Ya, I'll add a "dur!" to that too
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 01:24 PM
Oct 2012

And the fact that it leads to negative population growth, which we REALLY need...but is incompatible with capitalism, so it's a no-no.

Crazy, isn't it?

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